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Original Title: Johnno
ISBN: 0702230154 (ISBN13: 9780702230158)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Brisbane, Queensland(Australia) Australia
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Johnno Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages
Rating: 3.73 | 899 Users | 63 Reviews

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Title:Johnno
Author:David Malouf
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 256 pages
Published:September 1st 1998 by University of Queensland Pr (Australia) (first published 1975)
Categories:Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Classics

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Brought back to Australia by the death of his father, Dante is sorting through his father's belonging when he comes across a photograph of Johnno, a long-time friend. The photograph stirs up a lifetime of memories for Dante, leading him to finally set Johnno's story--which has haunted him for years--on paper. An outrageous character of legendary proportions, Johnno is brought top life in all his complexity, beginning with his days at Brisbane Grammar School, when he and Dante first become friends, to the days they spend together in Paris, Johnno's inexplicable rages and periodic transformations are recounted until we come to know him--without ever quite understanding him. Daring, impossible, and unpredictable, Johnno is a fascinating character. His shocking behavior awes some, annoys others, and provokes a good many more. Above all, though, he is thoroughly unforgettable.


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Ratings: 3.73 From 899 Users | 63 Reviews

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A nostalgic novel in regard to setting, that for me, made the characters and plot insignificant. Malouf has such a rich command of language, and I enjoyed the book in this regard. However, at the end I found myself asking, what was this book trying to say? It's hard to criticize a master writer like Malouf, but this book left me wanting something more. The main character seemed to lack empathy - but was this the intention? And what did the narrator really think of Johnno? I felt like there was

An entertaining and nostalgic book, coming from Brisbane I loved the detailed description and how Malouf evoked a strong sense of setting in his writing. The story was very simple and grounded, which isn't for everyone but It held me on throughout the book.

Ive spent years writing letters to you and you never answer, even when you write back.This was one of the most achingly nostalgic novels Ive read. Almost everything about it seemed to be underlying. For an autobiographic novel it was fairly restrained and I never had the sense that the author/Dante knew Johnno very well, which begs the question - do we ever really know anyone? How much of Johnno was accurate? How much was 'what-if' and 'should've been?'The writing was beautifully sad and filled

I had mixed feelings for this novel, perhaps like Dante's feelings towards Johnno, but overall I believe it was a decent book, very descriptive in some parts which I believed was a little too much for my liking but I really liked how it ended. I think it was by the second half that the book interested me more, it made me think about certain things and about the idea of friendship.

A beautifully written novel; fell in love with it from the first page. Magical descriptions of a Brisbane and a childhood of the war and postwar years. The character of Johnno haunts the book from schooldays to Paris and Greece and back to Btisbane. Simply one of the finest novels I have read.

Astonishingly well written for a debut novel. Malouf has always denied that this is gay fiction but my thoughts are that the problem with that category is that it is about 'sexual' orientation rather than 'gender' orientation: that is, people focus on who x has sex with rather than on whom they are able to love/ create a relationship with. This, I believe, is the truth of what sexual orientation means and can account for everything from a mutually celibate relationship to a committed life-long

I kept on wondering what the book was about as I read it. At first I thought it was going to be about the author's father, but no, it wasn't. It was meant to be about his friend Johnno, but was frustrating because the author knew so little about the man - what motivated him etc. It was sort of autobiographical, but again frustrating because it never gave details on any aspect of his life. So I found it annoying mainly.